Report on the Performance of Activities of the National Preventive Mechanism for 2015 At border crossings there were mostly ambulances of the Ministry Unlike the medical teams of Health, but they were often too far away and not sufficiently of the Ministry of Health, visible, and medical teams stayed at the vehicle waiting for the whom the refugees had people who need their help to contact them, which is probably to contact on their own the reason why there were fewer interventions than may have or accompanied by been actually required. On the other hand, at Harmica border police officers and/or crossing we witnessed an exceptional, self-organized volunteer volunteers, the medical involvement of physicians. At Opatovac Camp, as a result of teams of Magna and of somewhat longer period of refugees’ stay (between several and Doctors Without Borders 24 hours), healthcare was organized in an infirmary placed next regularly approached the to the registration tent and inside the camp there was a Magna refugees and performed tent and an ambulance. Transit Centre in SB had an infirmary in so-called quick screening each sector of the camp, as well as one next to the registration of their general section, and it also had a medical station, which meant a condition. significant improvement in infrastructure. Initial triage was organized at registration, and it involved refugees with health problems having to contact the police officer, which represented an additional burden for them. Apart from that, teams of physicians of the Ministry of Health were not present at the sectors in both camps, and for security reasons organization was based on the expectation that the refugees would come on their own and request medical assistance, again with the help of the police officer. At the same time, with constant presence of the police, there were also volunteers and employees of UNICEF, UNHCR, Magna, Save the Children and other civil society organizations who were constantly present in the sectors, without any recorded incidents or threats to their safety. By 31 December, physicians of the Ministry of Health had examined 21,694 refugees, which included 4,343 examinations by the emergency medical team, 16,130 examinations by family medicine practitioners in the field, 591 occasions of hospital treatments and there were 630 persons who were treated at the medical station of Transit Centre in SB. In addition to that, the number of interventions of Magna was approximately 14,000. The role of international medical teams of Magna and Doctors Without Borders was a significant complement to the availability of healthcare for everyone who needed it, because it was provided proactively. Unlike the medical teams of the Ministry of Health, whom the refugees had to contact on their own or accompanied by police officers and/or volunteers, the medical teams of Magna and of Doctors Without Borders regularly approached the refugees and performed so-called quick screening of their general condition. They moved about all over the camp, which demonstrated their required adaptability to the people and to the conditions of work. The importance, but also the economic feasibility of a preventive approach to healthcare of migrants in irregular situations was confirmed by the Report of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) of September 2015, which presented a model for calculation of costs in the event of hypertension and prenatal care of migrants using the example of three 46

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